Triple

T7393722
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Civil Action E170567 entity
Predicate legalCaseInvolved P17092 FINISHED
Object Anderson v. Cryovac
Anderson v. Cryovac is a landmark environmental contamination lawsuit over industrial pollution of drinking water in Woburn, Massachusetts, that became widely known through the book and film "A Civil Action."
E662015 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Anderson v. Cryovac | Statement: [A Civil Action, legalCaseInvolved, Anderson v. Cryovac]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Anderson v. Cryovac
Context triple: [A Civil Action, legalCaseInvolved, Anderson v. Cryovac]
  • A. Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio
    Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio is a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case that narrowed the standards for proving employment discrimination under Title VII, prompting Congress to later revise those standards in the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
  • B. Cook v. Gralike
    Cook v. Gralike is a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited states’ power over federal elections by holding that Missouri could not use ballot notations to influence voters’ choices for congressional candidates.
  • C. Lucas v. Earl
    Lucas v. Earl is a landmark 1930 U.S. Supreme Court tax law case that established the principle that income is taxed to the person who earns it, regardless of contractual arrangements to split or assign that income.
  • D. McDonald v. Smith
    McDonald v. Smith is a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the First Amendment’s Petition Clause does not grant absolute immunity from libel suits for statements made in petitions to government officials.
  • E. United States v. Darby
    United States v. Darby is a 1941 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal labor regulations under the Commerce Clause and marked a broad expansion of federal power over economic activity.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Anderson v. Cryovac
Triple: [A Civil Action, legalCaseInvolved, Anderson v. Cryovac]
Generated description
Anderson v. Cryovac is a landmark environmental contamination lawsuit over industrial pollution of drinking water in Woburn, Massachusetts, that became widely known through the book and film "A Civil Action."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Anderson v. Cryovac
Target entity description: Anderson v. Cryovac is a landmark environmental contamination lawsuit over industrial pollution of drinking water in Woburn, Massachusetts, that became widely known through the book and film "A Civil Action."
  • A. Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio
    Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio is a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case that narrowed the standards for proving employment discrimination under Title VII, prompting Congress to later revise those standards in the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
  • B. Cook v. Gralike
    Cook v. Gralike is a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited states’ power over federal elections by holding that Missouri could not use ballot notations to influence voters’ choices for congressional candidates.
  • C. Lucas v. Earl
    Lucas v. Earl is a landmark 1930 U.S. Supreme Court tax law case that established the principle that income is taxed to the person who earns it, regardless of contractual arrangements to split or assign that income.
  • D. McDonald v. Smith
    McDonald v. Smith is a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the First Amendment’s Petition Clause does not grant absolute immunity from libel suits for statements made in petitions to government officials.
  • E. United States v. Darby
    United States v. Darby is a 1941 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal labor regulations under the Commerce Clause and marked a broad expansion of federal power over economic activity.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69c68a5e2c9081909e713ce866e0060a completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2263b48819089319a2a2f0d3357 completed March 27, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c810f82ba08190919924b0994a2eee completed March 28, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c811f1fe3c8190a591186b19044b5f completed March 28, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c812c1e9d08190b0e7f052d87011b9 completed March 28, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:09 p.m.